Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 83, Decatur, Adams County, 5 April 1912 — Page 1

OVolume X. Number 83.

IfiRGAN SENTENCED from Two to Fourteen I | Years in Michigan City— I j He Pleaded Guilty. J j Ito forgery charge B sport and Adams || County Must Wait to j® Press Its Charge. K Adams county will have to wait from iwo to fourteen years to push its. Ml charge of forgery against Harry ur-; ■■ gan, one of the smoothest fellows t, M this class that has rubbed up against the sharp spines that line the way of ■M the. transgressor. Organ, who has BB been in the Cass county jail at LoHH uansport since March. 1911, was arBS raigned in the Cass circuit court Mt Thursday, where he pleaded guilty to IH the charge of having passed a forgHB ed cheek on the City National bank at MU that place December 17, 1908, and Judge John S. Lair sentenced him to E|gj| from two to fourteen years in Michigan city prison. I® Organ is also wanted by the NebrasM ka State ? Bankers’ association for fo“H gery, and that association quite re|S ‘ enl ' y asked Adams county to relinItS quish Organ to them, should he be re-J BS leased at Logansport, that they might' B take him beck to Nebraska and push ! 5 their charges against him. Prosecutor R. C. Parrish, however, ■ 6 refused to do so, and was sustained in J this decision by Governor Marshall, ' ge to whom the plea was also made by I the Nebraska force. | The sentence against Organ Thurs-1 V day, however, precludes the possibil- ■ I ity of anyone getting him for several j years at least. | Organ's forgery worked in this city , t was one of the smoothest ever record- [ ed. He succeeded in getting a 1491.29 check, purported to have been made , by 3. T. Burke, the grain elevator man, cashed at the OM Adams County bank March 16, 1911, and the bank is the loser by just this much, as the sum was never recovered from Organ Organ had been circulating about in this neighborhood for some three months before he made the attempt to pass the check. He had often dropped into the bank to g&t mono changed, had learned the names of the force and called them familiarly by name. He was well dressed, good appearing in all ways, and seemed to have the appearance of a minister. In fact, the tank employees called him “the preacher.” He stated that he lived over the state line. The forging of the check was a masterpiece in its line It is said that he called at the Burke elevator at times and represented that he was a railroad man He inquired whether they got their cars all right, inquired as to the bill of lading, etc., and then in some way learned that they kept their office unlocked, and later visited the place, stealing some blank company checks, numbering them with the same kind of a numbering machine. He also took the rubber stamp used in connection with the hand signature, and got some old returned checks, from which to copy the style of Mr. Burk's penmanship. The check he passed at the bank was numbered , with the same kind of number, bore the Burke elevator rubber stamp signature, with the "per” filled in with Mr. Burke’l name in h's style of penmanship so perfectly, that Mr. Burk ’, when showed the check, acknowlodg-i ed that it must be his, until later developments w ere brought to Hs’ih.; The written numerals on the check had also been copied so faithfully that they seemed to be a sac-simile of Mr. Burke's penmanship. When Organ presented the check he engaged the bank force in talk on the local option question which was then in lull discussion, and did so until the last one of the fine large bills was handed o'< r to him. POSTOFFICE TO BE FRESCOED. Bob Gregory anthhis men this morning begun work on the re-frescoing o. the postoffice building. The walls will be retinted in a handsome manner and the nostoffice will soon be splendent in its new dress. The ceding will be cream, shading into a light tan for the upper walls, then into a dark tan for the dado.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

BERNE SPECIAL TRAIN. lOn Next Sunday Will Make Four Stops, Including Decatur. The local G. R. & j. officials this I morning received information from , I Fott Wayne relative to the special! train to be run from Fort Wayne to I I I j Berne for the dedication exercises of ; the new Mennonite church on next I Sunday. The train will make four ! ■ stops along the way, they being at j Hoagland, Williams. Decatur and . Monroe. The train will pass through , , this city at about 1 p. m. and many . from here will be present at the after-, ■ noon and evening services. Upon re- j i turning the train will leave Berne at I 9:1. >, making the same number of, stops as going STILL NO RELIEF High Waters Still Prevail Throughout Country and Rising Rapidly. NICHOLS IN DENIAL Textile Workers in New Jersey Have Clash With Police There Today. ! Richmond. Ky., Apr. s—(Specials—(Special to I Daily Democrat)—The high waters i continue to flood here today from the I Mississippi river and as a result the! flood situation is critical. The city; ■ officials have more than 3,000 persons ' , to care for with today's arrivals, and with practically very little food to do j so. Local merchants have run out of 1 supplies. Hundreds of people are still - standing in the streets and on the i hillsides. Indianapolis, Ind., Apr. s—(Specials—(Special i 'to Daily Democrat) —Nichols has re-' pudiated his own story, but the depart- ' ment believes he will bear investigation and intend to question him fully. This was the statement of detective . Lieutenant Kinney of the police department this morning, previous to his departure for Portsmouth, N. H.,' to investigate the story of Seth Nich-. ols. the former sailor, who asserted that he murdered Dr. Helene Knabe by slashing her throat. Passaic, N. J., April s—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Textile strikers and deputy sheriffs engaged in one of the 1 ' most serious clashes thus far here, when the police used their clubs end revolvers in trying to stop the attack! of the strikers here today. The police department fired a volley of blanks at the mol', and none of the men and women '..ere hurt. Five arrsets were made The clash resulted ' from the arrest of Charles Rotbsin- ’ her, an organizer for the industrial . striking workers here today, who de- ( tied (he sheriff's orders for holding public meetings. Sympathizers tried : to rescue him when arrested. —— MARION KUHN RETURNS. — Makes Satisfactory Settlement ReBoard Bill. Marion Kuhn, the former Bryant.! blacksmith, who was taken to Bryant ■ ' by the officials Tuesday night, on com-1 plaint of John Depew that he owed him a board bill, contracted when 1 ■ Kulm tried to Keep bis three mother- ; less children together and boarded there, before coining here, has return- ' co to this city, having made satisfactory setlement. Mr. Kuhn is back I again at his work al the blacksmith shop on Seventh street, north of the Hower & Hower grocery. RECEIVER REQUEST GRANTED. Detroit, Mich., April s—(Special-tos—(Special -to Daily Democrat I —A receiver for the Pere Marquette railroad was granted in the federal courts here today. The action follewcd the state railroad commission's refusal to grant the railroad the right U issue $1,250,900 worth of bonds to pay interest on outstanding i debts. There Is still room in the charity fund if you care to contribute. The t money will lie expended judiciously t by some person decided upon by the charity organization.

Decatur. Indiana, Friday Evening, April 5, 1912.

GOT HER FINGER Jardiniere Bargain Hunter Grabs Mrs. Burr’s Finger Instead of Jardiniere. BREAKS TWO BONES In the Pulling Before She Realized Her Mistake and Let Finger Go. A woman bargain hunter, possessI ing all the determination of those of ! comic supplement heroines, made a ' grab for one of the tine jardinieres oi the special sale at the Morris five and ten cent store last Saturday and finding her fingers close about something j held on with all her might and main, pulling as she did so to draw the prize within -her reach. She finally realized that she had made a mistake and had gotten hold of the finger of Mrs. Charles Burr of Monmouth, much to that lady's great pain. Mrs. Burr, who was among the surging crowd, had stooped over to tie her shoestring. and while doing so, suddenly felt tier finger seized and held in a vice-like grip, which presently grew into an even worse torture as of the pulling and stretching of the “rack” of old, as the eager woman bargain hunter, thinking that she had good hold of a jardiniere, pulled and pulled in her efforts to gain the prize. While the injury was painful at the time to Mrs. Burr, the pain increased with ; great intensity and medical examinaj tion finally developed the fact that ; a bone of the third finger had been i fractured, also the bone leading there from up into the palm of the hand. I She Is obliged to carry the hand in a ! sling and will be disabled for some time. Mrs. Burr is complimenting herself that she has retained even the fractured finger, as it seemed a miracle that the finger was not entirely severM before the bargain hunter realized her mistake. BERNE TO BERNE Christ Gfelier of Kirkland Township to Leave for Berne, Switzerland. — HIS FORMER HOME -• 1 Resided in This County for: Thirty Years—Now Vis-, iting in Huntington. Christ Gfelier of Kirkland township was in the city this morning and at | , noon left for Huntington for a several days' visit with relatives. Upon his return he will leave for New York : City and then set sail for Berne, ■ Switzerland, where be will spend the i remainder of his days. Mr. Gfelier I was born and reared in Switzerland, i and thirty years ago came to this ' country and settled at Berne, where he purchased a strip of land, which he has been farming ever since. Ow- ! ing to his advanced age of sixty-five ■ years Mr. Gfelier recently disposed of his farm there, and since than had ! been contemplating leaving, and re- : turning to bis former home, where he has brothers and sisters living. He is also the possessor of land in the state of Kansas, which ho bought soiqe time ago. His trip will require from ten to fifteen days on the water, and he purchased his ticket from Berne, Ind., to Berne, Switzerland. He is well known here and in the southern part of the county, and his many friends regret his leaving. He will go at once on his return from Huntington. —a NO EVENING SERVICE. Owing to the fact that the new Mennonite church dedication at Berne will occur on Sunday, there will be no evening service at the Presbyterian church. The Christian Endeavor society will hold its meeting at 6 p. m. By order of the session. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Oliver and children were in our city today shopping and left on the afternoon train for their Monroe home.

, FEET ABOVE WATER. Mersman Horse Can Soon be Taken from Watery Grave. The feet of the poor old horse of William Mersman which slipped down the banks of the swollen St. Mary's river into the overflowing stream last Friday, while unloading rubbish, dragging the wagon with it, can soon be taken from its watery grave, and thence to its last reefing place—the fertilizing plant. For some time, people interested in ,ue unusual and sad death that befell the faithful beast, have been watching the receding of the waters, and Thursday noon one of the horse's feet became visible. The waters have laiien so slowly, however, that only another foot was visible this morning. The horse seems to have fallen only to the second bank o” the river, and wueJL tho river is at its nor mal depth, would be high and dry i above the stream. REV. VUKER RESIGNS. Rev. Vuker, who for the past five ' years has been pastor of the Pleasant View Baptist church, two miles nortli of Wren, preached his farewell ser- , mon Sunday', and will leave at once . for Andover, Ohio, where he has accepted the pastorate of another church at an increase in salary of $l5O annually and a parsonage which also carries five acres of ground, on which Rev. Vuker expects to get back to nature. The congregation would not accept Rev. Vukei's resignation, but he felt, that his work was finished at Wren, and he would not remain. 1 The finishing of the fine new church ' just dedicated is a fitting monument to his years of labor. Sunday. Rev. Alexander of Louisville seminary will be present and preach his trial ser-! mon, and will be retained if he shows the proper capabilities.—Willshire Herald. The Rev. Vuker was pastor of the new church which was dedicated a few Sundays ago. o ACCIDENT AT SALE. Charles Stranb narrowly escaped being seriously injured during the horse sale this morning by falling j with a horse which rolled over him. i He had taken a hoise in charge and | was on the street “winding” him, j , which consists of running the horse j i up and down until the circulation is , increased. He tried to make a turn ' | at the end of a block and in doing so : the horse stumbled and fell, throwing I Straub from his back and in front and I under him. The horse fell on top and ! rolled completely over Straub. Horse- : men who witnessed the accident, ran : j to his assistance and assisted him to j the office, where he found his injuries i to consist of a badly bruised leg and ) an arm, from which a large portion of | skin was peeled. He was able to return to his work after a short rest and anticipates no further trouble from the shake-up. _ TEACHERS TO CHICAGO. : Left Thursday to Attend Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association. A large number of Decatur teachers left Thursday night for Chicago where they will attend the Northern Indiana Teachers’ association. The party included Mrs. Bailey, the Misses Mutchler, Uohgleton, Acker, Miller, Peterson, Lankenau, Sellemeyer, Dunathan. Messrs. J, C. Tritch, E. S. Christen, S. C. Cramer and E. E. Rice. THE HORSE SALE. The horse sale started ' wita a rush this morning at 10 o civ. k, when Auctioneer McNabb opened the sale and the large crowd of farmers and buyers present commenced a spirited i bidding, which soon disposed of several of the good horses. i'ossib ; . the largest attendance or any sale is he.'e today and the selling is qt'' •» tad fast. Aside from the unfortunate . ' cident this morning the ' ale is a huge success, and the m:>>; gement Is highly pleased with the outlook. o “THE TOWN CONSTABLE” COMING Plans for the most delightfuy proi duction ever given in this city, “The ' Town Constable, ’ under the auspices i of the Modern Woodmen, are progressing nicely and everything will be ready when the curtain rolls up at 8:30 next Wednesday evening at the Bosse theater. It Is a rural comedy ■ In three acts, and in the east is known : as the companion play to “Way Down ■ East." Get your tickets and make a date for that night at tho opera house.

HEAP BIG TIME Is Expected Here on Next Thursday When District Pocahontases Convene FOR ANNUAL MEET Many Counties Will Send Delegates—All State Officials Are Expected. Arrangements are being completed by the Majella Council, No. 72, Daughters of Pohahontas, of this city for the district convention to be held ! here next Thursday, April 11th. As | the district includes the counties of Adams, Alien, Blackford, Grant, Hunting, Jay, Lagrange, Randolph, Wells and Wabash, many hundreds of visitors are expected. The District Great Pocahontas Mrs. Jessie Burdg of this city will preside, and many of the state officers, including the following will be here: Great Pocohontas Stella Bird. Cambridge City; Great Wenonah Lizzie Arbuckle, Kokomo; Great Minnehaha Hesba Blough, Anderson; Great Keeper of Records Pearl Thornburg, Daleville; Great Keeper of Wampum Jessie Burdg, Decatur; Great Prophetess Nana Diggs, Winchester. The convention will be called to or der —speaking in the beautiful figurative language of the dusky tribe — “the first council fire will be kindled at the first run. the thirtieth bieath," or in plain common day language of I the white people, at 1:30 o'clock p. m. Thursday, April Uth. “At the third run and the thirtieth breath, a special council of the great council will be kindled for the purpose of conferring the great council degrees upon all who are eligible. At the seventh run, the council will convene for the adoption of any other business. The de gree staff of Neoma Council, No. 20, Hluffton, will confer the work ” chancFifor liee i - — wm i i Milton Werling Rested Well Last Night After Operation for Injury I FROM HORSE'S KICK Operation Revealed Badly Bruised Condition of Bowels and Peritonaeum. i Twelve-year-old Miltoii Werling, son of Albert Werling of Preble, who was operated upon Thursday afternoon for relief from injury sustained when : he was kicked in the bowels by a horse Wednesday, rested fairly well Thursday night and is doing as well today as can be expected. Should nothing else sots in the child has a chance for recovery. The operation opened the abdominal cavity for a drainage of the fluid collected there and revealed a very badly bruised condition of the bowrtls and an affection of the peritoneal covering. The drainage gauze will be left in the cav- > ity lor two or three days, until the condition becomes normal. The condition of the child after the kick was such that tue only chance for life lav in the operation. It was performed by ■ Dr. J. C Grandstaff, assisted by Drs D. I). Clark and J. M. Miller of this city. SABAH DECKER SALE SATURDAY. Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock, at ; the home of tho late Sarah Decker, will occur the sale of both her person • al and real estate, as per order grant- ! ed the executor, John S. Gleckler, by i court. MUMPS EPIDEMIC ABATING. ) C. B. Andrews, county truant offi- ■ cer, who paid an official visit to Gei neva Thursday, reports that the epii demic of mumps which struck that i place, keeping many of the children , from school,, ‘s abating.

COMPLAIN ABOUT THE CARRIERS Farmers Say Some of Them Lose Time Visiting and Talking Politics. • Various complaints have been coming in lately concerning rural mail carriers, who stop along their route to discuss politics and other matters, thus delaying the service. We are glad to say that none of these have j concerned the carriers from the Decatur office. Those who are guilty should cease at once, for the next complaint, along one route at least, I we have been informed, will be made to the third assistant postmaster general. The rules on this offense are very strict and a little proof would result in removal from office. If the cerriers care anything about their jobs w;ith the government they will "cut ’ 1 the visiting aud “politieing.” ALIVE AND WELL ’ Was Telegram Sent to Mrs. Charles Richardson Regardiiw Iler Husband. L > FAILED TO ANSWER Wife's Letter—Will Get the Sheriff After Him—She Wants Support. “I personally know Charles Rich1 ardson. He is in Middletown, Henry County, Indiana, alive and well,” was the import of the message sent by a [ Western Union telegram to RichardI son’s wife at Geneva, the Sunday after , the account appeared in the Decatur , Daily Democrat that he had been [ missing since January 10th, and that his family was uneasy over his continued absence and silence. The message was signed “W. F. Ballingall." Mrs. Richardson, who has been supporting her family of five children by i ‘taking in” washings since Richard- ; son unceremoniously left her, when he 1 ' informed her that he was going to ' ’ | tune an organ for C. B. Andrews and i ! others in this vicinity and never re-! i turned, followed up this message with ; j a letter addressed to her hubby. She , placed her return card on the letter, ; : but has gotten no answer, showing i i that although Richardson without! doubt gut the letter, he has deemed it best not to write. Mrs. Richardson ! is unable to support her family longer ! j and notiiieq Mr. Andrews, when he ! paid a visit to the schools Thursday l that some provision would have to be , | made for placing the children in a home if Richardson did not return to i taek care of them. She also directed him to notify Sheriff Durkin to notify the sheriff of Henry county to take steps toward finding him (ind he will probably be brought up to face a i charge of desertion should he be . found. When Mr. Andrews called at the schools several weeks ago, Mrs. ; 1 Richardson learned for the first time j 1 that her husband had not been at his | t home to lune the organ as he had left 1 home to do. Three of the five chilI dren are in school. One of school age I is un'zble to attend and the oldest is fifteen years of ago. The county tru1 ant officer has been making provision i for thos" attending school, as required by law. i THE SUGAR FACTORY NEWS. ' i Mr. Earl Robinson of St. Loui’, ■ Mich., agriculturist, has arrived with - his family, and is located in the Seth- ’ er residence on Twelfh street. Mp. - Robinson is employed bj the Hollands St. Louis company, and will soon have a wide acquaintance among the fartnt ers of this section. 3 Messrs Frank Baker and C. J Shepherd, two agriculturists from the St. Louis branch of the sugar com- . pany, are here for a few days, to assist the Decatur men in closing up t the sugar beet contracts. As yet no contract has been let for - the building of the dyke at the factory K site. The company would be glad to consider a proposition irom any one able to handle the contract. L. C. CARTER OPERATED ON. L. C. Carter, the well known Geneva ■ merchant, Thursday underwent an opt eration at the Lutheran hospital, Fort i Wayne, for appendicitis. The operation was a success.

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COURT HOUSE NEWS John S. Gleckler, Executor, Granted Order to Sell Decker Property. SALE HELD SATURDAY Hamrick-Brandt Case Reset for Trial April 18—Order of Sale in Faust Cause. Evaline Archer et al. vs. Mary Bisson et al., partition. Final report filed. Commissioner ordered to pay share of James M. Archbold to clerk jof court, in sum of $14.39. Report approved and commissioner discharged. Clerk ordered to pay said sum of $14.39 to James M. Archbold upon proper identification. Miles W. Hamrie;-. vs. Maria Brand' et al. Cause reset for Thursday, April 18th. The Spring Steel Fence & Wire Co. vs. Noah Biberstine, on note, SBOO. Demurrer to answer to first and second paragraphs of complaint overruled; exceptions. Homer Faust, guardian of Cories Faust, reports inventory of real estate No. 2 filed, also filing petition to sell real estate. Charles W. Yager and Daniel N. Erwin appointed appraisers. Appraisement filed; also additional bond, which is approved. Petition submitted, granted, and real estate ordered sold at private sale without notice for cash. Guardian ordered to report at next term of court. Peter Soldner, administrator of the Ferdinand Fox estate, filed proof of publication and posting notice of final report, which is submitted, approved and the administrator discharged. John S. Gleckler, executor of the Sarah C. Decker will, filed proof of publication and posting of notices of sale of personal property. Petition ! by executor for order to offer and sell ! the real estate described therein. InI ventory and appraisement of personal property and real estate filed. Addi- ■ tional bond filed and approved. Petition submitted and granted. Sale to be private, without notice. Terms, 1 one-third cash, one-third in six ana ' one-third in twelve months. Deferred payments to bear 6 per cent interest, secured by mortgage on real estate sold. The county commissioners held a I short session this morning, at which time, a license was granted to Frank-' tin Andrews to conduct a saloon in the south part of Washington township just outside ot Monroe. Licensed to wed: Ellen Lehman, born May 13, 1883, daughter of David I Lehman of Berne, to wed Leonard I Fe’ dinand Sprunger, farmer, of | Berne, born July 1, 1882, son of David C. Sprunger. Realty transfers: Eliza Johnson to Jonathan Andrews, lot 20, Monroe, $250; Decatur Cemetery Assn, to William H Baker, lot 526, Decatur cemetery, $57.60; Elmer E. Candy et al to Charley H. Windmiller, realty in Hartford tp„ $12,500; Rudolph Brenning to Minerva Murphy, 80 acres, Monroe tp., sll,lOO. o MARSHALL IN WASHINGTON. Washington, D. (?., April 5- (Special to Dally Democrat) -Governor Marshall of Indiana, who is here to deliver an address before the Y. M. C. A. Sunday, today said there was absolutely no political significance in his visit. Congressman Lincoln Dixon of the Fourth Indiana district, hunted up the governor today and presented a number of prominent democrats from all over the country. The’governor told them that he did not wish to be considered as an active candidate for the democratic presidential nomination. He said, however, that he appreciated the action of the Indiana democrats in endorsing him. and that in case of a deadlock that he did nut believe it unlikely that the democratic national convention woiiid turn to Indiana for a presidential candidate The governor and Mrs M:i shall c ii today sightseeing. He altu called i Vice President Sherman. Speaker Clark and Floor Leader Underwood. He will call on President Taft tomorrow.